Enderal is a total conversion of Skyrim where the entire handcrafted world and experience will blow you away. New classes, weapons, open-world, story and much much more... If you thought Skyrim was huge, wait until you explore the world of Enderal Forgotten Stories.



Follow my step-by-step guide on installing, configuring and optimizing Enderal Forgotten Stories in Linux with PlayOnLinux.

Note: This guide applies to the Steam version of Enderal Forgotten Stories. Other versions may require additional steps.

Tips & Specs:

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Mint 19 64-bit
PlayOnLinux: 4.3.4
Wine: 4.0 64-bit
DXVK: 1.2 64-bit

Wine Installation

Click Tools
Select "Manage Wine Versions"



Look for the Wine Version: 4.0
Select it
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Click Next

Downloading Wine



Extracting

Installed



Click (amd64) Tab
Select 4.0
Click the arrow pointing to the right



Download Wine 64-bit

Installed



Wine 4.0 32-bit and 64-bit is installed, you can close this window

Downloading Enderal

Note: Make sure you have Enabled Steam Beta and Downloaded a version of Proton

Use your native Linux Steam client to download Enderal
Search for "Enderal: Forgotten Stories



Click "Install Now"



Uncheck "Create desktop shortcut"
Uncheck "Create start menu shortcut"
Click Next



Click Finish



Download Windows Steam Client

Go to: https://store.steampowered.com/about/
Click The Windows Icon under "INSTALL STEAM"
Save SteamSetup.exe on your Desktop

PlayOnLinux Setup

Launch PlayOnLinux
Click Install



Click "Install a non-listed program"



Select "Install a program in a new virtual drive"
Click Next



Name the virtual drive: enderal
Click Next



Check all three options:

• Use another version of Wine
• Configure Wine
• Install some libraries

Click Next



Select Wine: 4.0
Click Next



Select "64 bits windows installation"
Click Next



Wine Configuration

Libraries Tab
Type the following libraries & Click Add

• d3d10
• d3d10_1
• d3d10core
• d3d11
• dxgi
• xaudio2_6
• xaudio2_7

Select one at a time and click Edit
Select "Native (Windows)"
Click Apply



Graphics Tab
Check "Automatically capture the mouse in full-screen windows"
Click OK



PlayOnLinux Packages (DLLs, Libraries, Components)

Check the following:

• POL_Install_corefonts
• POL_Install_d3dx10
• POL_Install_d3dx11
• POL_Install_d3dx9
• POL_Install_tahoma

Click Next



Note: All packages should automatically download and install

Click Browse

Navigate to your Desktop
Select "SteamSetup.exe"
Click Open



Follow the Steam installation instructions
Click Finish at the last step and Run Steam



Click the X when Steam is done downloading and launches



PlayOnLinux Shortcut

Select "Steam.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Enderal Steam
Click Next



Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



PlayOnLinux Configure

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure



General Tab
Arguments: -no-dwrite
Wine version: 4.0



Note: Click the + to download other versions of Wine. Click the down-arrow to select other versions of Wine

Close Configure

Run Enderal Steam and login



Cut-n-Paste the Enderal game folder
Go to:

Code:

/home/username/.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/

Select Enderal directory
Cut or drag-n-drop Enderal directory



Go to:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/enderal/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/

Create a folder: common



Paste Enderal directory in the common folder

Note: Perform this step after Enderal is finished downloading in Native Linux Steam client. Enderal is about 15 Gigabytes

Back to PlayOnLinux
Click Configure Again



General Tab
Click "Make a new shortcut from this virtual drive"



Select "Enderal Launcher.exe"
Click Next



Name the shortcut: Enderal Launcher
Click Next



Select "I don't want to make another shortcut"
Click Next



Display Tab
Video memory size: Enter the amount of memory your video card/chip uses



Download DirectX End-User Runtime (June 2010)
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8109
Save to your desktop in a folder called: DirectX2010

Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive"



Go to the DirectX2010 Folder on your Desktop
Select "directx_June2010_redist.exe"
Click Open



Click Yes

Click Browse
Navigate to the DirectX2010 folder on your Desktop
This will extract a bunch of files into the folder
Click OK



After its finished extracting
Go back to Miscellaneous Tab
Click "Run a .exe file in this virtual drive" again



Go to the DirectX2010 folder again
Select "DXSETUP.exe"
Click Open



Accept the agreement
Click Next

Click Next

This will install a bunch of DirectX libraries, specially the ones we need for sound in Enderal
Click Finish



Close Configure

Installing DXVK

Go to: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases/tag/v1.2
Download Version 1.2
Save to your Desktop
Extract on your Desktop

Copy all of the DLLs in the x64 Folder

Paste in the Enderal Launcher.exe Folder
Full Path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/enderal/drive_c/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Enderal/

Tips on Setting up DXVK in Linux
http://www.gamersonlinux.com/forum/threads/dxvk-guide.2540/

Run Enderal One Time

Enderal has a problem loading due to a missing ini file
Run the Launcher once and make all the necessary settings you need to change

Select "Enderal Steam" and Click Run



Select "Enderal Launcher" and Click Run



Note: You might see a crash pop-up for Steam, you can click cancel and ignore it

Optmization:

Common Tab
Adjust:

• Vsync
• Window Mode
• Aspect Ratio
• Resolution
• Antialiasing
• Anisotropic Filter
• Graphic Quality (Presets)

Detail Tab
Adjust:

• Reflect Ground
• Reflect Trees
• Reflect Objects
• Reflect Sky
• Textures
• Blur Quality
• Shadow Details
• Decal count
• FXAA

Visibility
Adjust:

• Overal draw distance
• Actor draw distance
• Object draw distance
• Light draw distance
• Grass draw distance
• Reflection draw distance
• Details on distan objects
• Feild of view
• Shadow draw distance

Optimization Tab
Adjust:
Memory usage
CPU usage
Experimental Multithreading



Click "Save Settings"

Run Enderal to be sure everything is performing correctly for your hardware

Crash on Load Fix

Now that your settings are set, lets fix the crash on load
Go to "My Games" Enderal Folder
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/Documents/My Games/Enderal

Copy the Enderal.ini file



Paste in the Skyrim Folder
Rename to: Skyrim.ini



Copy the plugins.txt file
Full path:

Code:

/home/username/.PlayOnLinux/wineprefix/enderal/drive_c/users/username/Local Settings/Application Data/enderal

Paste in the Skyrim folder in Application Data/Skyrim



Now Enderal will launch at next load
Any time you make changes to the launcher, you have to perform the above steps

Conclusion:
This is the only way to play Enderal in Linux as it is not currently working under Proton. Its a LOT of work-arounds, but once it starts, you can play for hours. I only experienced a single crash so far, but its a HUGE game and will take a long time to play through.
If you want to avoid the crash and make system changes, you can do it in-game only, but the changes are limited... mostly view distance. But those settings can still improve performance.

Gameplay Video: